Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger
Phillip Duane "Phil" Hardbergeris a former mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He took office in June 2005. He is a Democrat; however, as with all mayoral, city council, and school board positions in Texas, Hardberger was elected on a non-partisan ballot...
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Financial services may soon be the largest industry in San Antonio,
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Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.
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If (Tagliabue) was here today, he could not help but be impressed, ... I don't know if he would change his mind (about calling San Antonio a small market), but I think he would be impressed.
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We are going to pay more than we ever have for a city manager, but we have a lot more San Antonio than we've ever had, too,
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We're not going to wait for federal dollars to arrive, ... We're going to go ahead and write whatever checks need to be written right now to take care of these people and let them know that people in San Antonio love them.
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We're not as strong in the media market as we could be because San Antonio sits off by itself, it's not in the middle of a metropolitan area. I know (with) the National League, that carries a lot of water.
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I would like to see a more beautiful San Antonio. It's important to a city, and to individuals,
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I probably would rather be known for leaving a major park system in San Antonio,
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It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature.
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San Antonio is going through a metamorphosis from a small border village to a big city.
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I'd love to build in the feeling of early San Antonio, which was an oasis, which was why everybody came here. Urbanization has to some degree wiped that out ... we've been cutting trees and putting cement everywhere we can since then.
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This year's general-fund revenue, paid for by property-tax revenues, fines, fees and City Public Service income is $728 million. Last year was $620 million, which is (about) a 17 percent increase over last year. Phil's not doing anything different than what the rest of them (former mayors) do. That money comes from taxpayers' pockets.
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Whatever we need to do, we're going to do, ... We're not going to wait for federal dollars to come in, we're going to write whatever checks that need to be written right now.
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We are going to be immensely helped from having gone through this process two weeks ago,